Data Breach Response
A localised response to data breaches
Helping Welsh businesses respond to Data Breaches
Often, companies consider data breaches too late. If you have had a data breach, you are in the right place, and we can help you. Equally, if you are looking at securing yourself and your business against the potential of a breach, you are also in the right place.
From our South Wales offices in Cardiff, we help businesses like yours to best safeguard the data you hold, minimising and mitigating the risks associated with it.
The current inescapable fact is that simply developing an effective data breach response strategy is no longer optional. Organisations that aren’t ready to react to a security breach are only going to intensify the effect and results of any such attack, which may cause significant impact on its reputation and financial well being.
So, if you are a Welsh business, or have offices here in Wales, we can help you either pre-breach (i.e. developing your data breach strategy) or post-breach (i.e. interacting with the ICO or your SaaS/Tech platforms, also identifying and fixing the breach).
The Two Types of Data Breach
Personal Data Breach
Personal Data Breaches are when an unauthorised person or entity gets hold of or access to data, which only the data controller should have access too. This could be either malicious or accidental, but the results are equally dangerous.
A Personal Data Breach doesn’t just refer to outside indivuduals or organisations, but also within businesses themselves. An example of this is where a non-authorised individual alters or deletes any personal data.
GDPR Breach
A breach of one of the seven GDPR principles which include:
- Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
- Purpose limitation
- Data minimisation
- Accuracy
- Storage limitation
- Integrity and confidentiality (security)
- Accountability
A failure to abide by any of these principles when handling personal data is regarded by the ICO as a breach.
Reaction & Management
Strategy
As the quantity of cyber attacks and incidents grow, corporations have got to establish a data breach response strategy that maps the crucial steps to take and for the employees to action in the event of a security breach.
Universal
The appropriate reaction and management of incidents is of vital importance for all businesses, no matter what size or sector, whether manufacturing, service or construction industry, public and private sector.
Mitigate Damage
Security breach response, is the traceable, beneficial and an intelligent methodology to managing an attack from both an internal or external source that has breached your safeguards. It is a strategic approach to managing the incident with the objective of restricting damage, decreasing recovery time and costs whilst revealing the route the aggressor has used to ensure that it can be sealed and protected.
